One of my cat's is sweet but dumb, but he's so shy that no but me really gets to see the sweet part. (Or the dumb part, either.)

Has anyone seen "A History of Violence" and if so, thumbs up or down? Looking for something to see tonight and this is the only thing at the theater we want to go to that might have broad enough appeal to the group.

I think it was probably very good, but I had a very negative reaction to it. I wouldn't call it enjoyable.

Emily, you don't mean Goedel Escher Bach?

Tai Chi involves, unsuprisingly perhaps, chi. Getting your chi in order cures a lot of ills, according to philosophy. And helps you kill people. Also unsurprisingly, I get twitchy when arts get so dramatically bowdlerised.

People need to die. We're supposed to be shooting a skit for work, and 2/3 of the department has mysteriously disappeared. I want to vanish too, dammit. Maybe do some work, or something.

is the only thing at the theater we want to go to that might have broad enough appeal to the group.

Wallace and Grommit!

We're supposed to be shooting a skit for work, and 2/3 of the department has mysteriously disappeared.

I don't blame them! Ikes. Last time I had to do skits was probably college czech and THANK GOD that's over.

A quick Google says goats average 2.5 liters of milk per day, which I'll translate to a half-gallon and change. I'm betting that would be right in line for a family with three kids (human kids).

Friends of mine had a small farm where they kept horses and a small flock of sheep, but one year they tried pig-keeping. They named the pigs "Breakfast," "Lunch," and "Dinner," which kept their ultimate fate front and center.

When I was dabbling in Tai Chi, it was made very clear from the beginning that we were learning a martial art. It was also made clear that, as beginners, we really shouldn't try to use it outside of class unless our attackers were moving veeeerrrryyyyy sllloooooowwwwllllyyyy.

The moves were mostly defensive, but they were often defensive in a "and if someone approaches you this way, doing this will let you use their own strength to break their arm." Slow doesn't necessarily mean gentle.

I have no idea how it's taught to children.

Oh, oh! This will totally not be interesting to at least 9/10 of the people here, but I found a book yesterday which purports to explain Godel's theorem to the non-specialist, and so far (read three chapters in bed last night) so good!

Incompleteness? I finished that recently; it's pretty good. Although going online explained the theorem to me better.

I hope it starts resolving, soon.

Thanks.

Ooh, I just discovered that if I close my right eye, I can just about make out the clock on the wall of my office. So there's been some improvement in the last few days.